Statue of Tut's grandma met an undignified end

The World - In Brief

January 29, 2006

BALTIMORE -- A Johns Hopkins University archaeological team found a life-size statue thought to represent Queen Tiye, King Tut's grandmother, buried facedown under the floor of the sprawling Karnak Temple site in Luxor, the ancient Egyptian royal city. The statue, which dates to between 1391 and 1352 B.C., was found under a temple of the goddess Mut, which dates to about 700 B.C. The statue appears to have been tossed in with rubble used to fill in the floor during the temple's later expansion, said Betsy Bryan, a professor of Egyptian art and archaeology at Johns Hopkins.